Chapter 39: The Phantom of the Tomb
Everyone followed Iijima Chiya forward with confusion, wandering aimlessly for a while. It was getting late.
Everyone had to go back to the restaurant, and the old village chief and Luo Z had been waiting for Iijima for a long time.
It is not difficult to see from the confident expressions of the two that the two sides have negotiated a mutually satisfactory result.
The banquet in the village was similar to what Guan Hao and they ate on the first day, all of which were local products from Tai O, which were expensive and could not be eaten in other places.
There are reservations about eating several parties in a meal, but Guan Hao has no thoughts, and the meal is hearty.
During the banquet, the old village chief excused himself to be very old, and after drinking a glass of wine with the guests, he left the table to rest.
The whole process was accompanied by Xiao Yu's third uncle Huang Zhimin.
Originally, according to the plan, there was no going to eat in Tai O, but the old village chief arranged it, and Chi also wanted to eat in the village, so Luo Z also accompanied him to eat in the village.
Maybe it's something in his heart and his mood is not good, Iijima Chiya also drank a few toasts, but he seemed to be drunk all of a sudden.
Z chief arranged for the driver to help Chi Ye get in the car and go back to the hotel that had been arranged in the town to rest, but Iijima Chi refused to leave, insisted on staying in Tai O, and tomorrow to see the nearby geographical location and ecological conditions.
Luo Zchang really didn't want to stay overnight, and he stayed one more night for fear that something extraneous would happen.
But now he refuses to leave, and he has no choice.
I had to ask Xiaoyu's third uncle Huang Zhimin to arrange a place to stay.
Although Tai O has declined, it is also a big pier that has seen the world, with a profound heritage, and the style still exists, and the guest rooms are still good.
The guest rooms are unified in the old inn, Guan Hao and Cao Wan also live in the inn, and Iijima Chi and Luo Z Chang and the accompanying personnel are arranged to rest in the inn.
There are only about 10 rooms in an inn, and all of them are arranged to live here, as if Tai O has returned to that era full of money and opportunities.
Guan Hao and Wan'er's room was next to each other on the second floor, Guan Hao sent Cao Wan into the room, and before leaving, he told Cao Wan to lock the door and knock directly on the door on his left hand if there was any movement at night.
Iijima Chi was also helped by Huang Zhimin to a village boy to the second floor next to Cao Wan's room to rest, the young man was more frizzy, and when he got to a basin of hot water, he gave Iijima Chi a sassafras and left with the water, regardless of whether the guests needed anything else.
Guan Hao's room and Iijima Chiya's room were separated from Cao Wan's room, and Guan Hao did not rest at this time.
Guan Hao's mind played back and forth about today's performance, before the meal, he visited the village and held a yellowed photo, looking depressed like a mourner, at the dinner, Guan Hao obviously felt that this little day deliberately pretended to be drunk just to stay in the village and didn't want to leave, there should be an ulterior secret. He took a flashlight from his backpack and put it in his hand, just in case. At this time, Guan Hao has been guarding under the window of the room to monitor the room of Iijima Chiya diagonally opposite, today is the full moon, the bright moon is in the sky, the stars and the moon are bright, if you walk at night at this time, it is a good time.
There is no nightlife in the village, except for watching TV and resting early, and the village is already resting at this time, only the occasional dog barking.
Suddenly, the door of Iijima Chiya's room opened, and a black shadow sprang out, and walked down the second floor along the wall, and when he reached the lobby, he felt the deadbolt of the door, leaving a gap where only one person could enter and exit, and the black shadow got out of the inn and ran all the way to the south of the village.
Guan Hao didn't have time to think about it, picked up the strong flashlight and followed out, saw the black shadow went to the south of the village, and was shocked, Xiao Yu told Guan Hao that the east of the village is a cemetery, the local people call it "Ten Thousand Graves Ancient Tomb", the people who died since the establishment of the village are buried here, hundreds of years have passed before and after it has become a cemetery of more than 10,000 graves, this cemetery is also a cemetery of all nations, there are many foreign seas that came to China through the Maritime Silk Road, many people who died in other places are also buried here, and the cemetery is planted with pines and cypresses, Most of them are hundreds of years old, and they grow unusually luxuriantly, and the daytime is extremely gloomy and almost inaccessible.
Guan Hao has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his skills are very good, and he follows the man in black more than 10 meters behind him unhurriedly, and the man in black may not have realized that there are still people following him so late, and after leaving the village, he seems to have relaxed his vigilance and slowed down his speed.
Guan Hao followed the man in black into the cemetery, and the speed of the man in black will be much slower tomorrow, but looking at his left and right, he should have stepped on it in advance, and he is still very familiar with the infiltrating cemetery.
I saw the man in black holding a low-beam flashlight looking back and forth in an ancient cemetery, looking for something? Guan Hao couldn't see clearly what the man in black was holding because he was far away? Follow too closely with the non-dry for fear of being discovered.
As the man in black turned around several times, just as Guan Hao was lost because of the man in black, the man in black suddenly said excitedly: "Yo Xi! The voice was very small, but Guan Hao still heard it very clearly, there were only two and a half people in the village who could speak Japanese, one was Iijima Chiya, the other was Guan Hao, and the other half was the Japanese translator brought by Luo Zchang, obviously the man in black was the day man Iijima Chiya.
Iijima Chiya searched for a long time, and finally stopped at the southeast corner of the cemetery and made a sound excitedly.
Looking at the shape of the tombstone, this tomb should be the tomb of foreigners, because with the appearance of a stone cross.
Iijima Chiya took out the shovel he was carrying, began to shovel the soil, and after a while, he dug up a grave, only to see him use the shovel to pry open the stone coffin, and took out a small box with vermilion lacquer from it, and after opening the box and carefully looking at the contents inside, Iijima Chiya was satisfied and made an excited "Yoxi" sound.
Guan Hao saw all this from afar, and wanted to know what Iijima Chiya had obtained by digging the grave late at night. Just when Guan Hao was thinking about what to deal with next.
Iijima Chiya looked back vigilantly, and shone the flashlight in his hand to shine on Guan Hao's location.
Seeing that there was nothing, he put down the vermilion lacquered wooden box and began to restore the excavated tomb.
Wait for Iijima to make everything done, and it has been more than 1 hour.
Guan Hao is not completely sure that he will be able to snatch the vermilion lacquer wooden box from Iijima Chiya now, and it seems that he can only find an opportunity to find a way to steal the wooden box.
Guan Hao followed Iijima Chi also out of the cemetery, and returned to the village, originally thought that Iijima Chi would also go back to the room directly, but Iijima Chi also walked the route is not the inn, but to the west of the village, after these two days Xiao Yu led, Guan Hao is very familiar with the terrain of Tai O, along the stone street all the way to the west Iijima Chi should also be out of the village, because the gate of the village is in the west.
Could it be that he is going to run away from the village on this small day, and he can't just let him run away with his things.
Guan Hao was about to snatch the vermilion lacquered wooden box with his hands, but he saw Iijima Chiya gently pull open the bolt of the village gate, tiptoe out of the gate, and then cross the stone bridge, suddenly a black shadow flashed, and disappeared into the path to Mida Zen Temple.
Guan Hao was shocked in his heart, oh no, it turned out that he was going to Mida Zen Monastery on this small day.